Exam 11: The Audience

Entertainment includes theatrical flourishes such as brilliant debate and witty epigrams;qualities such as the spectacular,the suspenseful,the foreign,and the grotesque;and can include any form of drama that stirs our feelings and heightens our awareness of the human condition.

The presence of a critical focus in the audience has the effect of keeping the theatre

Which type of critic needs a sufficient background of knowledge and experience to provide a context for opinion and evaluation?

Which of the following is true of professional scholars?

Scholarly critics generally write

Which of the following is the newspaper critic's principal job qualification?

Which form of dramatic criticism do you think would have the most power and influence today: print media,television,or online? Compare and contrast each form and explain why you choose that form.

Artistic quality has nothing to do with honesty or whether we as an audience feel anything from the production.

Scholarly dramatic criticism is itself a literary art,of which works by Aristotle,Goethe,Shaw,and Nietzsche have outlasted their presumed subjects and helped shape our vision of life.

The public form of play analysis following a production is called

Which type of critic holds the theatre to its highest possible standards and cuts against the inherent danger in drama to turn toward pure entertainment or sensationalism?

Explore and explain the phrase "We are the critics."

What word fits the definition of "that which holds the attention"?